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CHE 311
Problem Set 2 – Internal Energy
General Direction: Please write your answers in yellow paper with complete solutions.
Random student may be called to present his/her answers during class discussion.

I. 1) Give the SI units of (a) energy, (b) work, (c) volume, (d) force, (e) speed
2) Express the following units in terms of the combination of meters, kilograms,
and seconds: (a) joule, (b) pascal, (c) liter, (d) newton, (e) watt
3) List all values of the constant R with corresponding units.
4) Show how the values of ΔH and ΔU can be calculated for changes in
temperature.

II. 1) Calculate the difference between Cp and Cv for ideal gases.

2) How many calories of heat are required to raise the temperature of 48 grams of
oxygen from 100 to 1500 (a) at constant volume and (b) at constant pressure.
3) Find the ΔH expression when n moles of a substance with Cp,m = r +sT1/2,
where r and s are constants, is heated at constant pressure from T1 to T2.
4) Three (3.0) moles of helium gas is contained in a cylinder fitted with a
frictionless piston at P = 1.00 atm and is in a large contant-temperature bath at
400 K. The pressure is reversibly increased to 5.00 atm. Assuming that He is a
perfect gas, calculate (a) q, (b) w, and (c)ΔU for this process? What is the
significance of the signs of q and w?
5) Deduce whether q, w, and ΔU is positive, negative, or zero.
a) Combustion of benzene in a sealed container with rigid adiabatic walls.
b) Combustion of benzene in a sealed container that is immersed in a water
bath at 25 0C and has rigid, thermally conducting wall.
6) For N2(g), Cp,m is nearly constant at 3.5R = 29.1 J/mol-K for temperatures in
the range 100 to 400 K and low to moderate pressures. Calculate q, w, ΔU and
ΔH for the reversible adiabatic compression of 1.12 g of N2(g) from 400 torr and
1000 cm3 to a final volume of 250 cm3. Assume perfect gas behavior.
7) Calculate ΔU and ΔH for changes in state of 2.5 mole of a perfect monoatomic
gas with Cv,m = 1.5R for all temperatures:
(a) (1.50 atm, 400 K) à (3.00 atm, 600 K) and
(b) (2.50 atm, 20.0L) à (2.00 atm, 30.0L)

III. TRUE/FALSE
1. For every cyclic process, final state is the same as the initial state.
2. The KE of a system of several particles equals the sum of the KE of the
individual particles.
3. The P-V work in a mathematically reversible process in a closed system is
always –PΔV.
4. The infinitesimal P-V work in a mechanically reversible process is a closed
system always equals –PdV.
5. ΔT is always 0 for every isothermal process.